Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - FULL: Who Should Be The PM Of The South Island?

Episode Date: October 17, 2021

Kia ora! Over the weekend was the Super Saturday Vaxathon and there were some golden moments, like Ashley Bloomfield dancing, Jacinda making Clarke do some DJing, and Paddy Gower saying "LESHGO". And since the South Island has no Covid, there's been a petition to let them be their own nation. So, if they did become their own nation, which famous South Islander would make a great Prime Minister? Jono's also realised that his daughter's texts to her friend on his phone look a bit dodgy from the surface without context. Finally, we caught up with comedian Hayley Sproull who hosts The Great Kiwi Bake Off with Madeleine Sami, always lovely chatting to her! Enjoy the poddy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jono and Ben, new to your mornings. Friends of Skinny, New Zealand's most recommended telco. Happy, happy, happy, oh, oh. Just when you thought you couldn't get enough of Jono and Ben, you can have them anywhere, anytime. Welcome to the Jono and Ben podcast. Standing six foot tall, weighing in at 38 kilograms, please welcome Benjamin the Banger, boys! What was my nickname there? I was trying to think of one on the spot Benjamin the Banger boys. What was my nickname

there? Well, I was trying to think of one on the spot. The Banger? Benjamin the Banger. That could be a good fight name for you. Yeah. Or the adult film industry. Please welcome the Banger boys. I don't know. What other one would be a good fighting name for you?

Welcome to the podcast. It's the 18th of October. I don't know. I'm definitely not. I'm not cut out for the the podcast. It's the 18th of October. I don't, no, I'm definitely not. I'm not cut out for the fight game. It's not my forte. Some people really are. I was watching some documentaries over the last few months on Netflix. You know how you watch one doco and then you're fed, you know, content that's similar.

And it was about fighters. Yeah. And just saying that the common theme amongst all fighters is that they've come from a background where they've had to fight. Right. So they've come from nothing, they've had to battle, and so that will to fight in the ring is there. I like fighting. Unlike us, handed a silver spoon in our mouth.

I was going to say, we're determined in our job to do well, but not into a confrontational sort of fighting. Fight or flight, I'd rather take the flight. If that's the option, is that an option? Is that what they mean by that? determined in our job to do well, but I'm not into a confrontational sort of fighting. Yeah. Fight or flight, I'd rather take the flight. That's the option? Is that an option? Is that what they mean by that? Especially when you watch the UFC and stuff.

It's like, well, you know, I don't want to end up like that. Look at this guy. The guy's nose is falling off his face. Yeah. His ear is hanging on by a thread. It doesn't look that appealing, but I mean, you know, if it's your thing. I imagine you get to a point in those fights where you're like, I'm in so much pain I can't feel any more pain.

You know? Because they never go, ow, ow. I would, yeah. Stop it. Please. Stop. You're right. You're right.

You just kind of, the adrenaline would kick in. My tooth is literally in your knuckle. Can you stop me? Yeah. But then even to continue on to the point, because they just keep going. Yeah. If there's a guy on the ground with his face,

they just get punching, punching, punching. They don't stop. I'd be like, oh, okay, he's had it. He's had it. Let's call it. Come on, ref. You know, but you're right. They wait for the ref,

and the ref seems to take some time and just go, is he? Is he? No, he's out. He's out. But I suppose if you knew what it was like, what it felt like to be hit, then maybe like, oh, you know, if it's part of your job, you get used to it. But yeah, again, not for us.

I think even, you know, like even boxers, UFC people, you know, even going into the ring and winning easily, you're still probably going to get hit a few times. You're going to, you know, like it would be a pretty rare boxing night if you go in the ring and don't get hit once. Yeah. I mean, you'd want to be the boxer who has just had a whole career of just knocking people out as soon as the bell goes. And you've never been hit.

Yeah. Wouldn't that be the best box? That would be the way to go, right? If that was the option, then maybe I would have considered. That's what the Ben the Banger boys does. He goes out there, gets the job done. Straight away. They're on the canvas.

Yeah. I know we got into a weird fighting discussion. Yeah, we did, actually. Yeah. Do you watch the UFC? No. No, but I do. Like, I follow, like, Israel Adesanya and stuff like that.

You know, like, he's awesome, you know. But I don't, you know. As soon as it's a fight on, all over your social media feed, people love it. Like, it's huge, eh? It's huge. Yeah. It's amazing. I find it, like like we worked at the

rock for many years and they'd have it on in the studio with the sound off and it's just you're like turn it off it's just turn it off it's just so i get to a point a bit oh no let the it's over let that guy in there but it's still going you know but then then there was that fateful day where jesus you walked into the rock in a salmon shirt. And I was like, oh, he's got a target on his back now. That's me. Oh, no, I hear you, Ben Bush. I don't mind boxing, though. Oh, you watch boxing?

Yeah. But just UFC's a bit too much for you. Yeah, but I probably would get into it. Like, I'm a sort of, you know. Well, I think once you get past the blood and gore of it, I imagine there's quite a lot of tactical, you know, it's like when the yachting takes place. There's a lot of stuff you don't even think about that's going on.

And that's signed up for it. It's not like a fight after, you know, on a Saturday night where you're like, oh, mate. They're willingly in there. Yeah, they're in there doing that, which is a big part of it because it is very brutal. There's people that find it too brutal. A lot of good New Zealanders doing it, eh? Yeah.

Oh, good. We're doing all right. We're doing all right there, eh? Well, I mean, we saw Israel outside work one day. Yeah. Don't worry about him and his car. He's doing just fine. He's got a nice car, eh?

He's a nice car. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's probably our biggest... He would be our most popular internationally. Sports star. Sporting export. Yeah.

He would be. He got the pip with the government, though, didn't he? I think because, yeah, there was He got the pip with the government though, didn't he? I think because there was a lot of problems with MIQ and the very small amount of people you imagine in a UFC team compared to, say, the cricket teams or the netball teams or the rugby teams and stuff like that. And so, yeah, they're really struggling to get in and out of New Zealand. So, yeah.

So he was going to move there. Is he moving over to the States? I think that was the case, yeah. Which you understand because a lot of the fights happen over there. But it's sad because him fighting here in New Zealand from time to time would be awesome. If he bought it here, it would be massive. You're right. Because they would, yeah, they would employ all an internet local crew to film it and put it on.

And I can understand how they would feel a bit frustrated because they are at the top of their game. And they're kind of only a couple of people and they're not getting MIQ spots. I hear you, broQ spots, you know? I hear you, bro. So, you know, yeah. It would be a real shame if he does head on over there and look at it. I hope he doesn't. I hope he doesn't. Look, I think Drake messages them and things like that, you know,

on social media. You know, that's the level he's at. When Drake's messaging him. Mate, I'd love Drake. I'd love Drake to. What would you love Drake to message you? What would you get him to say? Like, if you could get Drake to craft a message for Ben Boyce, what would you want Drake to message you? What would you get him to say? Like if Drake, if you could get Drake to craft a message for Ben Boyce,

what would you want him to say? It'd be like, hey. Well, yeah, I was thinking first off, I was thinking first, like you just have drinks Friday. I was thinking that would be cool. And I'd be like, oh, Drake's invited me for drinks. But then there would be a lot of expectation that I'd need to bring. Oh, yeah.

You wouldn't want to be invited to drinks with Drake. You'd get in your head. Yeah, I'd be like, oh, geez, am I going to be like to drinks with Drake get on your head I'd be like oh jeez am I going to be that guy I'd be like it's 11.30 man I might wrap it up I've got work in the morning I would never relax in environments like that you'd just be surrounded by people who are just way too cool you'd never cut

so it's a good thing these nights what drinks has he invited you to what are those work catch up you're meeting up with his workmates? No. Is it a birthday party?

No, he's got drinks. He's in town. He's in town for a couple of days. Oh, so this is like a private function he's putting on. Yeah, come up to the hotel,

have some drinks and then we'll see how the night goes. Mate, mate. You're not a come up to the hotel for a party guy. Don't kid yourself. Don't kid yourself.

Don't kid yourself. It's not just me and Drake sitting around going, well, what channels do you get on the hotel TV, you know? Oh, yeah, can I look at the mini bar? I can imagine he would do that yawn thing. Oh, all right. Might call it a night, you know, big day of rapping tomorrow. All right, there we go.

That was some stuff. Yeah. Now, this afternoon, there is another press conference from the government announcing what's going to happen with COVID. And it feels like it's the time for the poor old South Island to be cut some slack, right? I reckon go back to level zero for the South Island. They haven't had COVID.

Yeah. We're making them. We keep mentioning her. Shout out to Mrs. Humphrey, Ben Humphrey's mother in Fairleigh. They're doing level two in Fairleigh. Never even heard of COVID. Yeah, I know. So there's a petition that's emerged over the weekend, Ben.

Thousands of signatures. Christchurch City Councillor has started a petition to basically give the South Island space. While the North Island's sort of out there, you know, the little COVID thing that's going on. You guys have got your little thing happening. We just want to be our own republic. And as each day passes, it feels like the South Island is floating meter by meter closer to Antarctica. Away from just distancing itself from the North. Yeah, well, fair enough.

So it kind of started as a bit of a joke, I guess, this sort of narrative that the South Island should be by itself for a while, but I think it probably makes a lot of sense. So we're going to say, granted, this should happen. We back it. We're going to back it. We put our good names behind the cause. So the South Island's going to be its own only country for a while.

So what we want to sort out this morning is, well, who's going to be the new PM for the South Island? Okay, I reckon Shadbolt's having a flawless run at the moment. You want to put Sh this morning is, well, who's going to be the new PM for the South Island? Okay. I reckon Shadbolt's having a flawless run at the moment. You want to put Shadbolt in? Should we get Shadbolt in there? Well, he's been a great leader for many, many years. He is a wonderful human being, Tim Shadbolt.

Yeah. That's my vote. I'm going to go, well, there's some options I'm going to throw out there. I mean, there's Richie McCaw, legendary rugby player, legendary can tab as well. And the only bit of audio that I found was funny for Richie McCccall was when that guy uh got his name wrong in the uh nelson was it a nelson petrol station richie mccoy why wouldn't you pay when he was like the chimney was his idea when he did the ad for the home that he built yeah great leader he's. He's a visionary. Okay, McCaw's a great option too as well,

and he wouldn't say much. He wouldn't have to say much. But he's a great leader though. That's what he needs, right? Yeah. You'd have a meeting, you'd say about three words, but you'd get stuff done with McCaw. There's also, well, there's Jason Gunn,

I mean, a legendary canter, and a great professional. I mean, he carried on when Thingy's Eye popped out. Am I prepared to watch TRX, I think? I think so. They carried on. They wouldn't even know when Thingy's eye popped out. I'd hope you would give somewhat of a reaction if my eyeball had fallen out.

Oh, dear God. Someone call a doctor. Say, John. Well, they were all one-eyed and crushed it, so he'd probably be used to it. Shrek the Sheep, you know, like an iconic South Island character. Apart from the fact it's dead and it was delicious. Oh, is it? Well, it made international news.

Seven years ago, the big ball of wool was found. He hadn't been sheared for six years. So the Kiwis, looking to make some television history, sheared him live on the telly. So maybe Shrek's not alive. But you can't not end, if the sheep was alive. You can't put a sheep up to run. What's more New Zealand than that?

But not doing good things for New Zealand stereotypes. And the final one we're going to nominate through, you can give us a call on 100 of the Hits. The Wizard, the Wizard of Christchurch. At the moment, it sounds like he's not going to be paid as someone, as an icon of Christchurch. They've it sounds like he's not going to be paid as someone as an icon of Christchurch they've cut his salary

haven't they the council but we went to Christchurch and talked to the wizard can I ask you we'll rattle through some actors you tell me if they're good actors or not

Dwayne the Rock Johnson no terrible actor oh stop it he's great it's Ben Boyce's favourite you can't act at all he looks good

and he smiles a lot he looks good and he smiles a lot he looks good And he smiles a lot Anyway I'll wrap this interview up He's a nice guy You've offended Ben Boyce I was very upset after that

I tell you what We sat down and talked To the wizard And his greatest magic trick Is not stopping talking I know Juliet had to hold the microphone Oh my god

I had to edit the interview down as well I think it was like A 25 minute interview And I had to get it done in three minutes. We asked one question. He's a great talker. Just keep going. She's had some serious chiropractic work done on that arm. Just having to hold it there as a microphone. It flawlessly would dot from one

topic to the next. You couldn't even get in there. That's you. You couldn't even get in there. It was like sitting at the giveaway store and it was a busy street. There was no chance. Under the hits, 4487. Who should be the Prime Minister of the South Island? We need to decide that this morning. And thanks to Wild Bean, this is pretty awesome.

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It started off as a bit of a joke that the South Island should separate itself from the North Island for a bit. Well, the North Island deals with its filthy COVID situation, but it makes actually a lot of sense because it hasn't been COVID for a long, long time. And now there's a petition, a few thousand people have signed it

from a Christchurch councillor saying just that, the South Island should be its own, almost like its own republic for a long, long time. And now there's a petition, a few thousand people have signed it, from a Christchurch councillor, saying just that, the South Island should be its own, almost like its own republic for a wee while. And Ben Boyce, we've put our good names behind the campaign as well. We'd feature in one of those commercials with an earnest-looking celebrity,

black and white, all shot in just one eye. And they each say one word at a time, which makes up the whole sentence, you know. I'm willing to front up for one of those, Ben. Yeah, me too. Let's separate the South from the North. And the votes are coming through already.

We're running our election. It's a quick election as well. No campaigning. Get it done in a Kelly Clarkson song. That's what happens, you know. That's what my boy said. The election's dragged too long, too long, you know. The next election should be done in a Kelly Clarkson song as well.

What's your other one we play, that one that makes you feel good? Oh, God. I don't election should be done in a Kelly Clarkson song as well. What's your other one? We play that one that makes you feel good. Oh, God. I don't know. What's that great Kelly Clarkson song? What does it kill you? It makes you stronger. Yeah, play that one. If we don't have a leader by the end of that.

We've given you enough time, New Zealand. Yeah, all right. Let's go to Tanya. Who do you want to chuck your vote in for, Tanya, the Prime Minister of the South Island? I'm going for Simon Barnett. Oh, yeah. Great cantata. Listen, for Simon Barnett. Oh, yeah. Great canter.

Listen, I love Barnett from top to bottom. Every inch of the man. But my only fear would be, is he too nice? Is he too nice to run a game? Be like Ben Boyce. No decisions will be made for fear of upsetting anyone.

Yeah, well, he does seem like the loveliest, loveliest person. You're right. Yeah. You would have been too polite as well and let the rest of the world get the vaccine before us too, Ben. Yeah. You couldn't lead a nation.

No, no, I couldn't. I definitely couldn't. That'd be my only query about Barnett. He'd be a good deputy maybe. Get in there, get out there, shake some hands, kiss some babies. Now, a man who's had a ton of votes on the text 4487. And I can safely say we can probably crown him the Prime Minister of the South Island.

He joins us now. Please welcome Prime Minister Jason Gunn. Oh, Jason Gunn. Look, thank you. Straight away, I'll just say this. Simon bloody Barnett, no way. He's not your deputy. He's not at me.

Look, what you've got here with Jay Gunn, and I feel like I'm on the campaign trail, what you've got here with Jay Gunn, and I feel like I'm on the campaign trail, what you've got here is Simon Barnett but was a little darker in the humour department. That's what's going to get me across the line. Jay, it's so good to talk to you. You too, boys. In all seriousness, we do feel bad for the South Island.

You've been stuck in this sort of level two limbo for a long time. It must be frustrating. Well, you're very kind. But really, I don't think anyone on the North Island needs to feel bad for us in the South. Because look, we have, myself, we have like two daughters living in Auckland. And so we live every day with the stories of, you know, seeing a bit too much of flatmates, that sort of thing. And, you know, so honestly, our hearts are with all of you, really. But look, hey, back to the main story,

which is me being the Prime Minister of the South Island. Let's quickly move on from you guys. Look, seriously, I'm excited, and it's something I'm willing to take on. I like to think I could bring some heart and some humour. That's it. He sounds half asleep and he probably doesn't know what he said yes to, but he is the new

Prime Minister of the South Island. Jason Gunn is crowned during a Kelly Clarkson song. Just before actually, we played the iconic moment, which is not great on radio because it's obviously quite visual of Thingy's eye popping out and you guys, you carried on like the professionals

that you are. It's not great on radio but we did it anyway and it might speak volumes as to how the show's performing. But I watched something on your YouTube channel as well afterwards saying that that moment, that iconic moment of Thingy's eye popping out never actually happened on television on Son of a Gun. Well no it didn't

it was one of those moments, well of course Son of a Gun was generally pre-recorded, right? So, you know, what happened is we had several things happen over the years that we thought, oh, well, that must never see the light of day. You know, and trust me, thingies and eye-falling out was, well, I mean, that was minor compared to some things.

But anyway, it happened. What else fell out? Well, all parts of me, but that's another story. No, and so then, you see, we got a call from someone making a bloopers show saying, hey, you crazy kids and kids television haven't got some sort of blooper. I was like, hey, Al, we've got that. Remember that time your eye fell out?

So we do that thinking, I mean, and they're probably going to say no one really cares. And so it got played, and then it just went crazy. And then I remember, I think, Jerry Wells had a show, Eating Media Lunch, and it made it to the opening titles of that. And that just became this moment. And everyone says to me, I remember when I was home in the afternoon,

and then I fell out. Mate, I tell you, I'd almost ruined my childhood. I'd go, yeah, nah, I fell out. Mate, I tell you, I'd almost ruined my childhood. I'd go, yeah, nah, didn't happen, mate. And that's the Prime Minister of the South Island. He tells it like it is. He tells the truth. Well, sometimes the people need to know the way it is, okay? And I promise I will continue to do this.

Jason Gunn, lovely, lovely, lovely man. Thank you for your time. Lovely, lovely man. Love what you do, boys. Lovely, lovely, lovely. Right back at you, Jason. Everyone's lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely man. Thank you for your time. Lovely, lovely man. Love what you do, boys. Lovely. Right back at you, Jason. Everyone's lovely. You're lovely too, Ben.

We've got $5,000 on the way at 7.45. It is the hits. You've got John O'Benn. Another day at home with the kids. Little tip, it's called parenting, not babysitting. John O'Benn. New Zealand's breakfast. You're on the hits.

John O'Benn, 7.32, Monday morning. Got a text suggestion, Ben? Do you want a text suggestion on 4487? Someone's suggesting that you go and watch Rocketman on Netflix about Elton John's life. Yeah, I've seen it. It's really, really good. Is that Taron? Yeah.

The guy. The guy. Taron. The guy. It was Taron, wasn't it? Taron Eggett. Yes. Eggett.

He's awesome. The guy. Itaron. The guy. It was Taron, wasn't it? Taron Egott. Yes. He's awesome. The guy. It's very cool. They've done a really good job of sort of working in Elton John's sort of songs into scenes, and then they kind of come in. Oh, yeah. It's kind of like a musical, isn't it? Sort of.

They kind of weave its way. Yeah. The songs sort of weave their way through. Taron Egotton. Yeah. The guy. That's Egotton, not Egott. Good on you.

There you go. That was a wonderful suggestion. Thank you very much. Yeah, well, I'm back at number one first time in 16 years. Hey, over the weekend, did a couple of these things. And I know these are the moments in a parent's life that I'm going to cherish. And I do. I enjoy them.

They're very nice moments. Because, you know, one day they won't want to do them. But the family sleepover. So the family sleepover is all of the family in one room, which translates to the worst night's sleep ever. But it's adorable. It really is adorable. But the way that it's set up is I've got Jen, my wife,

and then Oscar and Poppy. They're in the main bed. I'm relegated to the foam mattress on the floor. That's my position. It's like they want you out of the family, really, isn't it? Hey, guys, I'm still down here. Yeah, yeah. But it's, you know, it's lovely.

But what happens overnight is just you've got a lot of restlessness, don't you, when you've got a group sleeping situation. Yeah. And then I sort of get to tap, tap, tap on the shoulder and there's no more frightening sight than a child not saying anything but staring over you as you wake up. I had it last night with the storm.

Oh yeah. The kids came in and you're like... And they don't say anything. It's like something from The Shining. Yeah, but she's like, Poppy's like, I'll come and sleep on here. And I was like, mate, there's not much real estate on this mattress, this phone mattress, but you're more than I'll come and sleep on here. And I was like, mate, there's not much real estate on this mattress, this phone mattress, but you're more than welcome.

And, you know, within 10 minutes, she's got a 70-30 split of the coverage. Kids are very restless, aren't they? Oh, they're all over. My friend always says sleeping next to a child is like sleeping next to an octopus trying to find its car keys. Oh, yes. Just legs and lungs. What does he say?

A goat that you've got in a sack. Oh, yeah. Punching, kicking. He just wants to get his way out of the sack. This obviously he hasn't put any goats in sacks before, but this is what you'd imagine it would be like. So he just wants to get his way out of the sack. I must have been elbowed in the face about eight times.

I must have been sleeping next to Conor McGregor. It is like USC, isn't it? Yeah, but then we wake up and it's fine. You get on with the day, don't you? I mean, you all know what happens when you sleep, don't you? You wake up. Yeah. And you start the day.

But it is lovely. It's a big thing for kids, isn't it? The sleepover. They love planning it and all that. You know, my daughters a while back were like, why don't adults have sleepovers? You're like, well, they kind of do, but it's a... And that's how they found out about the orgy.

Okay, all right. We're moving on from that one. It was out about the orgy. Okay, all right. We're moving on from that one. It was a life lesson that day. Rise and shine. Time to start the, um, who are we kidding? We're not the boss of you. Jodo and Ben, the hits. Now my wife Amanda, now she loves,

she loves watching Mr. Bean. We've talked many times about this and she loves playing at this audio where I recorded her watching Mr. Bean. Gee, she loves Mr Mr Bean. We've talked many times about this, and she loves playing at this audio where I recorded her watching Mr Bean. She loves Mr Bean. Not even Rowan Atkinson himself loves Mr Bean that much. But we love the Monday updates of the Mr Bean session. Was there one last night?

Well, there was. We didn't watch it last night because over the weekend, we're sort of getting into the Halloween spirit because the kids Bean session. Was there one last night? Well, there was. We didn't watch it last night because over the weekend we're sort of getting into the Halloween spirit because the kids love Halloween. It's one of those things. It's like Halloween's camping at the end of the month. Didn't you spend an exorbitant amount of money

on Monsters, Inc. costumes that surprised you the other week? You'd forgotten you had ordered them. Online during lockdown. They're very cool, but I don't think I'll be getting to use them anywhere because I don't know. They're those big ones that have a dinosaur version

where there's an air fan in them and they blow up. Kind of inflatable, yeah. Yeah. Good thing is about ordering stuff now is it takes so long to arrive you've forgotten your order. Oh, that's right. Yeah. These monsters in costumes I'll never need.

So we're watching some Halloween stuff with the kids and then the kids went to bed and my wife, she loves not only Mr. Bean, but she loves scary movies. Now, I'm not a scary movie sort of watcher. No, it's a bit of an inner turmoil this time of year for you. You love costumes, but you hate being frightened. Yeah. What does he do?

So we watched a movie called A Quiet Place, which has got Emily Blunt in it and John Krasinski, who are their husband and wife in real life, and they play husband and wife in this movie as well. I don't know if you've seen it, but it's quite... Were they a convincing husband and wife? Yeah, I feel like there might be something going on, some sort of chemistry going on on screen and off screen.

But in this movie, they're sort of out there in the forest and there's these sort of monsters. They've got supersonic hearing, these monsters, so they've got their family and they've got to be, even the kids have got to be super quiet. But the monsters can't see, eh? No. So they only go off...

They've got the hair, but the hearing's amazing. It's supersonic. It's supersonic. It's supersonic. You know when you've got supersonic anything? It's pretty good. So my wife Amanda was making me watch this, and I think it's payback for the Mr. Bean thing. She was recording me.

She's like, I'm going to record you during some of the bits. And this was some of the bits as well. There was a kid's toy went off. I've got that audio. I think so. Yeah. So I can't watch Open your eyes

I don't want to watch this movie It's too intense You know there's something there Stop talking There's something there Open your eyes. Are you sure there's audio of you watching a frightening, or is it your self-funded, self-made home movie bed?

Open your eyes. Open your eyes. The horror of me. Look at yourself in the mirror. That wasn't the kids. It was kid there wasn't the kids toy it was oh yeah when the kids toy goes off and they're on the bridge and oh geez that was another moment don't go down there don't go down there oh she's don't go don't go to the attic i gotta go come back come back i'm going i'm going i'm going i don't want to watch anymore

sit down okay that was me at the end of the i was like halfway through i couldn't do it i couldn't I'm going, I'm going. I'm going. I don't want to watch anymore. What should I need to do? Sit down. Okay, that was me at the end. I was like halfway through. I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. Walk down. It's too intense.

It's not for me. You just get balls, you know, like knots just watching it. Are you sure that really is you watching horror movies? Because I'm pretty certain that's audio from a whole other environment. I'm going. I'm sorry. Don't go down the attic. No, I'm going certain that's audio from a whole other environment. I'm going. I'm sorry. Don't go down the attic. No, I'm going to the attic.

I'm going to cry. Leave me alone. Oh, there you go. Ben Boyce, this is a tough time of year for him. Yeah, you're right. Costumes. I love the costumes. Another one of his fears is spending a lot of money,

and he had to do that on the costumes. I did, but I can't do the Halloween thing. So yeah, I want to celebrate, but I don't also like the horror movie part of it. What is Halloween this year? Many people won't be going trick-or-treating, will they? We might still be in... I wonder if there's a socially distanced

trick-or-treating that you could do. Or you just throw lollies at kids, do you? Macintosh in the forehead sort of thing? Alright, okay, Ben Boyce, we've got some plans happening behind the scenes that you don't know about that involve you and your movie-watching habits

and cash. What? That's all I'm going to say. Oh, okay. That's all I can say because it hasn't been signed off by our boss, Mike McClung, yet. But there's stuff happening.

The show where the masks make them look a whole lot better. Can't say this battered up old face yet. Jono and Ben, New Zealand's Breakfast. First day back at school for many today. That's if you go to school. If not, it's just another day

until it all finishes. Exactly. Pavi, my daughter, she's eight years old and she doesn't have a cell phone. She's got no means of communicating with her friends. So she uses my telephone to communicate with her mates. So she will play dolls or whatever in her room on FaceTime. They can kind of see each other and that sort of thing.

So I have the contacts of various mothers, parents, whatever, from school. And purely the relationship is purely parental. Yeah. Nothing more, nothing less. Playdate-based contacts. But she texts the mothers from my phone because her friend, she doesn't have a cell phone either, so they're both communicating through the parents' cell phones.

But she never stipulates it's her texting. So I'm texting this mother. First one, call me. Next one, I'm waiting in my bedroom. She's waiting to play dolls. And on the server, you know, on the server it looks terrible. Yeah, well, the mother, I don't know if the mother's married, got a partner, but the partner picks up their phone and they're like, are you going to ask me to write?

Exactly. Poppy's not putting her good name to it. This is all coming under my... Yeah. Next one. Want to come play in my backyard? Next one. Call me.

Let's do ballet. So that is my communication with this mother who's not responded to me, I don't know. She's probably thinking, talking to authorities right now or something. Getting a restraining order. This schoolyard pest getting parents' details, so I ask if they want to do ballet in the backyard. Okay, I see, I see. New Zealand's breakfast.

This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. Good morning, welcome along to the show. It is a Monday morning. Not quite Super Saturday. Good morning, welcome along to the show. It is a Monday morning. Not quite Super Saturday, it's just a... A miserable Monday. Yeah, we've gone from Super Saturday to miserable Monday. Well, welcome along. Now guys, I know you shouldn't turn up to my party on Saturday night in Takapuna.

We had a wonderful time. It looked like a heck of a party. Oh mate, I had all my mates twerking on the bloody table, on the pool table. It was great, two of them were hooking up and stuff. had all my mates twerking on the bloody table, on the pool table. It was great. Two of them were hooking up and stuff. I haven't heard anything more since, but it was a wonderful night. You missed out on a banger. Well, there hasn't been parties for a while, and people, you know, shouldn't have done it,

and there's a lot of businesses suffering, but it looked like one heck of a party. It did. It looked like one of your parties. It looked like one of my parties, but I can confirm I had absolutely nothing to do with that party. And it's so easy to go in on these people, which everyone is on the internet. I think they've all had to delete their social media accounts. But then I was

thinking, shoo, when I was that age, would I care about a pandemic? The answer is no. Oh, I hope you would have. Oh, no. I would have been twerking on the news. Oh, no. It's hard when everyone's following the rules and everyone's over the lockdown

and there's businesses that are struggling and may not open again. And you're like, these guys are having a party. You can understand their frustration. Yeah, and I think we're all jealous that the party just looked awesome. Like it was rooftop stuff. Anyway, I'm never going to one of those parties ever again.

No, we'll still be at lockdown. Who knows how much longer We got $5,000 up for grabs this morning We need to give that away as well as rewarding Someone who's doing some great work In the community not having parties That's thanks to HelloFresh it is the hits You got Jono and Ben on your miserable Monday

Let me love you Let me love you Over the weekend it was Super Saturday. The Vax-a-thon happened, a record vaccination day. It drew about 130,000 Kiwis to receive some jabs over the day. And, you know, I think before leading into it, there was a little bit like, oh, what's this going to be like?

You were one. Oh, it was a big campaign. But what was it like? I didn't watch it. Well, like, I think... What was the TV show? I'm just focusing on the TV show. I mean, great.

Whatever it takes to get people vaccinated, that's wonderful. Great result. Let's put that aside. Ben... What was the TV show? I'm just focusing on the TV show. I mean, great. Whatever it takes to get people vaccinated, that's wonderful. Great result. Let's put that aside. Ben Boyce, the TV show. No, I don't think the TV show... Like, it could have gone really down the nostalgia, you know, angle of,

oh, such and such has got to kiss that person and all that, you know, all that stuff we remember and people would have gone, oh, this is not quite... You know, it doesn't feel quite 2021. What, does the Prime Minister kiss Paddy Gower? Yeah, yeah. Like, it had a couple of moments like that, this is not quite, you know, it doesn't feel quite 2021. What does the Prime Minister kiss Paddy Gower? Yeah, yeah.

Like, I had a couple of moments like that, but on the whole, it was just like a crossing to vaccination centres and, you know, giving updates and having people talk sensibly about the vaccination, you know, which is what it needed to do. That's right, yeah. And the vaccine, hesitant to happen to this point. I imagine they've got many of them across the line. It's amazing what a blender from Harvey Norman will do for you.

I've changed my ways on the vaccine. Give me a flat screen TV, thanks. Anything to get people vaccinated, which is a good thing. And it started off with Paddy Gower busting out a Lash Go. Lash Go! You've really got to be confident in our

age demographic to pull off a lash goal Yeah, Paddy Gow I can't even do it Like I'm losing confidence in it right now No, I was setting it up I was like, oh God, I'm going to have to do it Yeah

And I shouldn't have done it I'm sorry You need to put like three lighters in your mouth And then they're kind of Lash Yeah, I don't know Juliet, can you pull this one off? Oh, do you want me to say

Yeah Oh God Lash goal Oh, you did well That's good Welcome to the whitest radio show in New Zealand. It's fine from you now. There was a moment where Paddy Gow was talking to the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, and

they had some DJ decks because they were playing some DJ songs throughout the day, and they thought they'd get Jacinda Ardern to get on the decks. Formerly a DJ. Yeah, what a great moment. And she did a great, a really good political move Deferred it to someone else Have a listen How would you feel about Jumping on the decks

Oh very bad Waka waka Better say that I These days Always defer now To Clark So if you're desperate For a DJ

I'm going to get Clark To take the job He's an actual DJ He's an actual DJ Come on up Come on up brother I've got nothing to offer And I feel very, like I shouldn't be touching another man's decks here so all I got and all you're getting is this.

Yeah, that was it. Just fades out. He kind of did a little, you know, and then I think he pushed up another laptop and it was like, yeah. Clark was like, hey, this is going to be a relationship conversation after this. Don't throw him under the DJ, but it's like getting you out into a dance circle in a bar. You don't want to be pulled out, do you? No, but Dr. Ashley Boomfield, who was on stage and talking for a while, who looks so different when he's not wearing a suit and tie.

Like wearing a T-shirt. I was like, who's this guy? But he was dancing outside afterwards and there was some great audio and great visuals of him dancing away, really getting into a song and went around social media. Have a listen. That is actually from Phil dancing. Casually at Bloomfield in party mode. There was a party mode.

I would imagine he'd be a tie around the head guy at the office party. Well, he didn't have his tie, so maybe that's where it ended up, around his head. But, you know, leading into it, as we said before, if you were like, how's this going to be? I mean, if it got some people vaccinated that we're going to, it was a success. So 130,000 people across the day got vaccinated. And you were saying they only planned it for a week

or so ago. That's what I read. Yeah, producer Bailey Mackey was catching up with Jacinda and Clark and Gisborne about a week ago and then it's a remarkable achievement to pull that together in a way. Yeah, so well done. The end result is great. That's fantastic stuff, Ben Boyce. And you've done a wonderful job too. You should be proud. Hold your

head high. Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. Now I'd like you to say, let's go into this next song. No, no, please. And do it in the cool way. Please go. We're not moving on with the show until he does it. I don't. I'm not a lash go. I can't do it. I can't do it. It's a fun song. You just did.

Kia ora. I'm't do it. It's a fun song. You just did. I've been holding on. Kia ora. I'm Rachel Jackson-Lees, and this is the B***h News. Yes, now we present a vehicle to insert some mildly interesting news stories that otherwise wouldn't make the cut for the show, B***h Boys. Juliet, it's the news and beeps. Yes, you have to guess what the beeped out word is to create this quirky headline. Your first news story. Nokia is re-releasing its

for 20th anniversary. I'm saying Nokia's re-releasing all the customer's genital pics. That means sent out by Nokia phones over the years. Just for the 20th anniversary. Who was taking them on a Nokia back in the day? Very pixelated. I don't know if that was possible.

I was just going for a cheap gag there, guys. I'm going to say Nokia is re-releasing all of its child factory workers for its 20th anniversary. What a wonderful gesture. Nokia is re-releasing its classic brick phone for 20th anniversary. So when I saw this headline, I got very excited because we can all remember what that looks like, but it is a bit of a revamped design. Most importantly, it does have snake and it does have a battery that lasts for weeks.

So if you want to buy, and it's got a camera on the back, which I don't think the original did the original brick have a camera? I don't think it had a camera. But the new one does. It seems like it's got a really hard shell so if you throw it from a four storey building it won't smash.

But yeah. I remember I had to go buy prepay cards from the dairy you know you get a 20 it would suck it up in about 30 you know you make one phone call yeah 20 bucks disappear yeah you had to be very selective with who you were communicating with yeah do you know what i remember back in the day i don't think i had a brick i think i had probably a little bit more of like an advanced phone because Did you have the Alcatel flip, flippy job? I did have one of those. I can only dream of those. Oh, mate, once you hit the flip game.

And then the slide phones. Remember the little phone that slid up? I had one of those. How cool do people look when they end a conversation and just flip it shut? But you could flip it. If you flung it back, it would launch open as well. Excuse me, business. So good.

It was making a statement there, wasn't it? So good So if you want to get amongst that, you can If you want to go back to the old days of the early 2000s The next news story Radio channel that plays only Has just launched for the year Plays only the St. Pierre's jingle over and over again

St. Pierre's, you're gonna love our sushi I'm going to say a radio channel that plays only the announcers talking over the beginning bits of all the songs has just launched. Radio channel that plays only Christmas music has just launched for the year. So this is a radio station in the UK and it first launched in 2016. I think it just goes dormant for the first sort of part of the year. And then they decide when they want to launch it. 24 hours a day just christmas music on repeat um this year's launch is 10 days earlier than last year they probably

thought that 2021 wasn't as uh wasn't what we expected it to be so yeah 24 hour music of christmas music it's like being in a westfield mall all day long oh my god what a treat yeah imagine working one of those department stores at Christmastime. You're a Christmassy guy, Ben. But you're right, day in, day out. Locked in Kmart for a 12-hour shift. Yeah. You'd probably hear some, with this radio station,

you'd probably hear some Christmas music, like random covers and stuff. Yeah, they'd get some B-sides from the Christmas albums, wouldn't they? For sure. And the final news story. New theme park to open in Florida next year. Well, I'm going to say it's not an amusement park, it's an amusement park. So you go along there like Johnny U-Town,

they go, you want to go on the roller coaster, you bald dick? They just give you abuse as you walk up. You walk out of there a shell of a human being. I'm going to say it's a pub quiz themed park. Quizneyland is opening up in Florida Oh you guys love some puns don't you New Peppa Pig theme park to open

in Florida next year So when I first read this story I was like maybe it's like within you know how Universal Studios has theme parks within Universal Studios Harry Potter etc This is like a literal stand alone you go to the Peppa Pig

theme park there's child friendly roller coasters and rides attractions character appearances

indoor cinemas if your child is obsessed with Peppa Pig this probably will be the best day of their life

don't get me wrong I hold the utmost respect for Peppa Pig in the Peppa Pig franchise but it's a

big call to dedicate an entire theme park to it. I know. I didn't realise it was that big, but it must be. I don't think anyone else did either. Yeah, true. Apart from the creators of Peppa Pig. But they're backing it in. And that is

the news and beats for you this morning. Very good. After 7 o'clock, don't forget, 7.45, we have five grand on the line like we always do. Five words, 5k on the line like we always do five words 5k on the hits tested safe for listening from home keep safe and that's all i have to say thanks dr ashley new zealand's breakfast a lot of big concerts coming to new zealand next year billy eilish doing three nights now i read over the weekend which is pretty awesome and uh jewel lipa as well

guns and roses coming and uh for the last couple of days behind the scenes, Jono, you've been like, producer Juliet, get the audio. This is how he sounds off the radio too. Get the audio of the Guns N' Roses ad I heard the other day. She's like, what time? I don't know, just get the audio. So Juliet's been looking all weekend for this. Good, good.

Did you sleep? No. Great. No, I did not. I said, do not sleep until you get me the audio of this Guns N' Roses commercial. It became quite the task for you, too, to track down, wasn't it? Yeah, it was pretty hard.

I was like, because when you're like, oh, yeah, you need to find this audio. I'm like, okay, cool. What time? You're like, I don't know. So I have to go through and listen back through what we call the logger. And it literally takes hours. So, yeah. Hope this pays off.

Find this audio. What time? I don't know. Just find it. So this guy, I want you to listen to this guy's voice because it sounds like this gentleman has swallowed awesome. New Zealand, this is history. Guns N' Roses announce the first ever international show at Eden Park in August.

It sounds like cigarettes and leather pants made love, and that voice was the outcome. This is the greatest show ever. Yeah, it's pretty cool, AC. Why don't you have a cool voice like that guy? Oh, no. Add some cred. Yeah, he wouldn't be doing the show on the hits, would he?

Even if you didn't like Guns N' Roses, that man would make you like Guns N' Roses. Yeah, I just like to imagine that he's like that all the time. It's pretty exciting, the outcome is New Zealand. Should we play some Guns N' Roses. Yeah. I just like to imagine that he's like that all the time. It's pretty exciting. They are coming to New Zealand. Should we play some Guns N' Roses right now? Well, yeah, the guy with the voice would want us to play Guns N' Roses. It would be a lot cooler if we did.

So why not? Let's get Monday cranking. Let's get into our Monday. It is New Zealand's breakfast. You've got some GNR. John or Ben? Scrolling through your feed. All right.

If you want to know anything about the news, then you probably shouldn't stay here and listen to this for the next three minutes. What's happening in scrolling, my friend Ben? Well, Queen Elizabeth, she's 95. She looks great on the TV every time you see her. She's 95. She's doing so well. I'll tell you who looks magnificent. Just, oh, William Shatner.

Oh, yeah. At age 90. I know. Just, it's like he reached 60 and didn't age anymore from that point on. Yeah, well, he's just gone into space. But the Queen has been told by doctors to give up her daily booze. Doctors have told her to stop having her evening martinis and stick to only having alcohol at special occasions.

Now, this article that I was reading about says it's not really a big deal for her. She's not a big drinker. But you've exposed her rampant problems in the past. I know it's an ongoing storyline of the show. Ben Boyd's trying to air the Queen's dirty drinking laundry. Well, not me, but you're right. There has been articles that have broken down what she likes to enjoy on the daily for drinking. And so this article, if I can refresh you just for a moment.

Here we go. He's got an agenda here for some reason to out the queen, but continue on. So according to this article that I read, she likes to start the day, start the day off with a cocktail, a gin cocktail. Like that's at mid-morning somewhere. Yeah, that's like a brunch cocktail that we figured out. There's also a glass of wine or a dry gin martini along with a lunch. So one of the options.

So two down already. It's not even one o'clock. And later on in the day, she'll enjoy a glass of champagne or two with a dinner. And there was no mention of the evening martini there in this article, which they've said the doctors have said not to have. So maybe there's another one squeezed in there. Yeah, it's because she lies to us. It's what an alcoholic does.

They don't tell you the truth about their consumption. I also recently learn that she has a secret tunnel from Buckingham Palace into a pub? Yeah. Cheeky. So she's having five drinks a day and she's like, I don't have much of a problem. It's fine. It'll be easy to knock on the head.

But when you get to that stage in life, it's all you've got. Oh, good on her. She wants to have a martini and watch the chase. Take me out drunk. And this, I thought would interest you john over in australia now there's been many controversial things on pizzas over the years pineapple spaghetti things like that but dominoes in australia uh they've gone next level and they're adding vegemite so it's called the cheesy vegemite pizza i reckon that would be nice. It would be like a warm Vegemite scroll. Yeah, like a mousetrap.

That's what they're doing. No word yet if it's coming to Domino's in New Zealand. But Vegemite pizza could be coming soon, you'd imagine. We always love it how they get celebrities over to New Zealand and they always make them eat Marmite. We spoon feed them Marmite. Yeah. But no one ever in the history of

Marmite consumption in this country has ever had spoon loads of it. But for some reason Justin Bieber put a spoon load of Marmite in your mouth.

And they're like why would you do this to me? We tried to do it to the guy from Suits the TV show the guy who played Harvey Specter on

Suits and he was like there's been nine other people today. Shove Marmite in my mouth. I've done it. I've done my

Marmite quota. Thanks very much. And it's disgusting. It's disgusting like that. Yeah, of course it is. There's jam, this big yeasty spread in your mouth.

But great, you know, put it on a bagel, put a little bit of cheese on it or something like that. That's great. I know, but then we like carefully just put little dollops on our toast.

But for some reason we're explaining these people what is our admission here? They just look like they've swallowed a glass of drinking tobacco spitting tobacco you know how they spit into a jar they're like black teeth and stuff that was uh scrolling to your feed this morning hey next really interesting we're going to talk to someone who's not only a musician but also turning turn vaccinator yeah look crazy So he plays in a band.

They should rename themselves The Vax Project. But we're going to talk to Gabriel. He's from a group called Foley and how he's diversifying in these, you know, unprecedented times. We like saying that, don't we? We'll get to the unprecedented interview next. Morning. This show contains traces of Jono and Ben. The hits with Jono and Ben for breakfast.

Now, indie band, indie pop band Foley features Gabe as one of the two people from Foley and he's also turned vaccinator as well. Really interesting story. And Gabe joins us on the phone right now. How are you, buddy? Yeah, I'm doing well. I'm doing well.

How about you guys? Yeah, we're doing good. Now, really interesting story with yourself because, of course, you're an indie pop duo by the name of Foley, but you're also now training to be a vaccinator. Is that correct? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, yeah. I thought I'd do my bit and

show up and do the training and get people vaxxed. Hell of a side hustle. Hell of a side hustle getting into the vax game. But, you know, we've all got to do what we've got to do. But you've actually got a deeper purpose to it too. Obviously your job and your passion and your love is music, and live music is such a big part of that, I imagine, performing for people.

And you just want to get that back up and running. Yeah, exactly. I mean, like, it's for myself as much as it's for the wider team around everyone, you know? Like, it's us being as much as it's for the wider team around everyone, you know? Like, it's us being on stage and it's our musicians as well, but it's the people who put up the stage. It's the people that, you know, do the sound and the lights and organise the event in the first place, you know?

We're sort of all depending on vaccinations to get back to that sort of normal Kiwi summer. So, yeah, yeah, it's all a bit of a mess at the moment, but we'll get there. Good on you, because a lot of times people would sit back and go, I should do something about that, but you're actually being proactive and doing what you can. Yeah, yeah, and vaccination's one of those things that, you know, you can sort of definitively do for yourself, you know.

I mean, obviously you do it for your whānau and your family and everyone else, but you can take that step yourself and get vaccinated, and that's doing your part for the country and your family and everyone else, but you can take that step yourself and get vaccinated, and that's doing your part for the country as well. So I think that's pretty cool. And that's been the big message at the moment too, that if you want to go to a festival over summer, if you want to see your favourite bands performing,

you really need to get vaccinated right now because you may not be allowed into those venues and you won't be vaccinated by Christmas if you don't do it right now. Yeah, exactly. It takes a while. But I mean, you know, if you get it done today or this week, then you'll be sweet. So can anyone, can I become a vaccinator? Depends what your background is.

So no. It's a chicken history, Gabriel. He's done radio. So what did you have to do to become a vaccinator? So I've actually got a degree in paramedicine. So I've got to help them. They're not just like, have you seen a needle going? Yeah, I've given blood before.

Yeah, right. You're right. Right. So alongside that, you know, the background training, you've also got to do sort of some COVID-specific training and so on. So everyone that's given you a vaccine is well-trained. They know exactly what they're doing. Yeah.

So there's a level of expertise required. Yeah, yeah, you can say that. I was going to walk out of the studio and be like, no, I'll chuck a needle in my hand, guys. I wouldn't advise that. Now, obviously, you would have seen that there's been a lot of things going around on social media, you know, particularly the vaccine hesitant people. There seems to be the argument going, well, what does it matter to you if I'm not, you know, and if I do, if I can still get the virus and I can still pass it on when I'm vaccinated, why should I do it?

What do you have to say to those people to sort of counter that? Well, I mean, I'm not going to get into the sort of, you know, science-y specifics of it, but it's what I said before. It's, you know, it's the one thing that you can do to protect yourself. And, you know, that kind of comes first and foremost, because if you're protected, then someone else is going to be protected as well, and they're not going to end up in hospital, not going to end up severely sick. It's that kind of thing, you know, if you're in a plane, they go,

put your mask on before helping others. So just make sure that you do your bit and everyone will be safe around you. That's well said. Yeah. That is really well said. Hey, well, listen, I take my hat off to you and I am wearing a hat today and watch me bend.

He took it off. He took it off. And well done on actually being proactive and going out and doing something about it and trying to help your industry. And if there's one final word, what is Gabe going to say? Get vaccinated. There's a couple of words, but all right,

we can put them together like the hashtag Vax4Life, which is a one word. Hey, good on you, mate. Congratulations on doing great work. Cool. Thank you. There you go, Gabriel from Foley. Vaccinating people as well.

Trying to get summer going again for New Zealand, eh? I thought of another band name that they could go under instead of Foley. Oh, what? The Pfizer Chiefs. Oh, God. Heard of the Kaiser Chiefs? No.

Well, you needed to hear of the Kaiser Chiefs to get Pfizer Chiefs. Well done. It's always better when you have to explain them, I find. Yeah, end up in this. The Head Spy with McDonald's Monopoly. Peel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes. Here to pretend she cares about Kim Kardashian's exfoliating regime, Juliette with Spy Entertainment News.

Thank you. So Britney Spears has spoken a little bit about sort of post-conservatorship life. Not that she's completely free at the moment. She's got a temporary conservator in place at the moment. But she said she's worried that she'll make a mistake once she becomes completely free at the moment. She's got a temporary conservator in place at the moment. But she said she's worried that she'll make a mistake once she becomes completely free. She said, I'll just be honest and say I've waited so long to be free from the situation I'm in. And now that it's almost here, I'm scared to do anything because I'm afraid I'll make a mistake. For so many years, I was always told if I succeeded at things, it could end and it never did.

And so she said that like when she first picked up the keys to her car, paparazzi were just following her and just going crazy, taking photos, and she just kind of started feeling more pressure, and she's like, I hope I don't. Well, because I imagine if you've lived your life under a conservatorship for the majority of your life, you'd be like, well, maybe I wasn't fit to be in control of all my stuff. I know, I know. You'd be that little voice in your head.

You'd have to relearn how to sort of live. And I mean, she might make a few mistakes, as you'd kind of, it would be hard not to, I think. It's been like Ben. Ben's like, maybe I am cool enough to pull off a mullet. And the answer is yes. Oh, really? That's surprising.

Are you going to keep growing it out? I don't know what I'm doing, to be honest. Geez, if I was your conservator, I would not have let you do that. Maybe we should sign one just for Ben. He's got a mullet now. What's going on? Let his kids give him a mullet.

Is he of a sound mind? And you may or may not have heard, and I really hope you have, Adele released her first single in six years over the weekend, Easy On Me. Jeez, I tell you what, the hits, the audios will be frothing for Adele. Honestly, I'm so excited. Isn't it all about her breakup, isn't it?

Walking out there, we've just watched the video, very emotional. There's a couple of things about the video. She walks out of the house just with one briefcase. Yeah. She's Adele, though though she can buy whatever she wants keep all this i don't care i'll buy you i just need to walk out with a kitsch briefcase yeah to look sharp i mean that song it's uh it almost makes you want to get married get divorced just so you can feel the pain that

adele's going i know i know very sad but But it's the first song from her in six years, and the song broke Spotify records for the most streams in a day. She took that off BTS. They had it for their song Butter. And something that I felt quite interesting is, so back when she was writing the song, she sent three of her closest friends a snippet of her singing it. And she got relatively...

Mediocre feedback. Yeah, yeah. So one of her singing it. And she got relatively... Mediocre feedback. Yeah, yeah. So one didn't like it. The other one said, well, yeah, maybe keep trying, though. And the other one was like... Who are these friends? Like Elton John? I know.

Simon Cowell? I know. Bit pitchy. And then the other one was like, sorry, I'm working at the moment. I can't really, like... So she was like, that's... Unless they record people and stuff and musicians. Yeah, high standards.

I know. Oh, here's the one, sorry, I'm working now. I know. I'm balls to the wall with my accounting now, mate. Not now. I'll get back to you. I'll get back to you. But it also got a very, like, a lot of other celebrities loved it.

I mean, Lizzo posted a video of her twerking to it, but it's very gentle twerking. Like, you can't really go hard with the twerking. Yeah, I mean, it's not Takapuna Saturday night party twerking, is it? No, no. More of a slow twerk. There'd be a lot of pressure on her, though. Yeah.

And you would feel it, too. Yeah, yeah, you would. Especially even the longer it is, the more pressure you'd probably feel like as well. She's got to come back with a banger. That's the good thing about doing a radio show every day. There's no pressure. True.

You just have a low level of consistency. Yeah. But if we went away for five years and be like, Ben is got to come back with a banger. That's the good thing about doing a radio show every day. There's no pressure. True. You just have a low level of consistency. Yeah. But if we went away for five years and be like, Ben is Ben's back. What's he going to bring? Yeah, exactly. You know, it just adds, eh? Totally. We will play that song, I think, after 8 o'clock.

Such a banger. And then after 9 o'clock. And then after 10 o'clock. And it'll be in a Dell Marathon. No. I hope we get to that point where we can play all of the songs from the album. And that is your Spy Update for this hour. That is thanks to McDonald's.

You can download the Monopoly game to win some epic prizes. New Zealand's breakfast. This is Jono and Ben on The Hits. And it's The Hits. Jono and Ben on your Monday morning. Now, it was Super Saturday over the weekend, but also, I guess, not great news in regards to the Prime Minister that she cancelled a wedding venue in Gisborne.

And now there's a $5,000 bill for a cancellation fee. Oh, you get hit with the cancellation fee. Now, I understand there were some issues over the catering of the event, too. They got Peter Gordon, world-renowned chef Peter Gordon, to come in and cater. And then I think the owner of the venue thought they were going to be collabing with Peter Gordon. Yeah, I can understand that. And it turns out Gordon's rolling in, and he's looking after the whole menu. And now the owner's like, oh, jeez, I'll do a magnificent beetroot salad.

And what, is this just going to get ignored? Yeah. So, yeah, I think they've decided to pull stumps on that venue. Yeah, which is a bit of a shame, and now there's a bit of a debate over the cancellation fee of $5,000. So, I can, you know, you can kind of see it from both sides. Oh, here he goes. What?

He loves to see it from both sides, doesn't he? You can see it from both sides. Balanced. See it from both sides. Okay, well, whose side are you taking then? I'm taking the caterer's side. I'm backing the little man on this one. I don't know why, but now I've called you up for sitting on the fence.

I've got to pick a side. And that was the first one that came into my head. It would seem unfair to pick the powerful prime minister over the little man. You're right. So that's who I'm backing, Ben. That's my horse. Good on you. Next on the show, the South Island have started a petition to do something.

And I actually... I agree with them. Yeah. I was going to take a side. I agree with them as well on this one. We we've been actually saying for months that this should happen yeah so we'll find out exactly what it what it is next and why it's going so well it is the hits you got John on intelligent thought-provoking stimulating three terms that will never apply here new zealand's breakfast now Elton John has returned to the top of the UK singles chart for the first time in 16 years,

which is pretty awesome. And the trick is he hasn't done any new, new music. So he's really clocked live, hasn't he? Even Ed Sheeran on his social media, because they're good mates, because Ed Sheeran himself had been holding down the number one spot for 11 weeks with Bad Habits, then four weeks with his new song Shivers. But Ed Sheeran was like, hey mate, I didn't expect to have a number one for so

long. Everyone should get Elton John's song to get him to number one because it's been a while since he's been number one. What a selfless act from Sheeran. Don't you hate it when your song's at number one for too long? You know what? Someone else needs to be number one. Yeah, so he's had a UK top 10 hit in six different decades now, Elton John.

How's that? Incredible. What was his last one you were saying, 16 years ago? 16 years, with Tupac and Ghetto Gospel in 2005 was the last, and the number one he's had. But many, many number ones over the years, Elton John. You know, it's not his real name. Elton John? No, Reginald Dwight is his real name. Really?

And then I was just reading, he used to be in a band when he was growing up, Bluesology, and Elton and John is a combination of two of his bandmates. Wow. The saxophonist Elton Dean and John Baldry, who's the singer. So how was Elton John? Oh my gosh. I don't know what ever happened to saxophonist Elton Dean and vocalist John Baldry. But I'm sure they're doing all right.

Well, let's play it right now. It is number one in the UK, Elton John, Dua Lipa, Cold Heart. It is the hits. You got John, I'm sure they're doing all right. Well, let's play it right now. It is number one in the UK. Elton John, Dua Lipa, Coldheart. It is the hits. You got it, John. I'm Ben. Got a text suggestion, Ben? Do you want a text suggestion on 4487? Someone's suggesting that you go and watch Rocketman on Netflix

about Elton John's life. Yeah, I've seen it. It's really, really good. Is that Taron? Yeah. The guy. The guy. Taron. The guy. It's really, really good. Is it Terran? Yeah. The guy. The guy. Terran.

The guy. It was Terran, wasn't it? Terran Eaglet. Yes. He's awesome. The guy. Yeah. It's very cool.

They've done a really good job of sort of working in Elton John's sort of songs into scenes, and then they kind of come in. Oh, yes. It's kind of like a musical, isn't it? Sort of. They kind of weave its way. Yeah. The songs sort of weave their way through.

Terran Eagleton. Yeah. The guy. Eagleton. Yeah, the songs sort of weave their way through. Taron Egerton. Yeah, that's Egerton. Not out. Yeah, good on you. There you go. That was a wonderful suggestion. Thank you very much. Yeah, well, I'm back at number one first time in 16 years.

Hey, over the weekend, did a couple of these things. And I know these are the moments in a parent's life that I'm going to cherish. And I do. I enjoy them. They're very nice moments. Because, you know, one day they won't, I enjoy them. They're very nice moments. Uh, cause you know, one day they won't want to do them, but the,

the family sleepover. So the family sleepover is all of the family in one room, which, you know, translates to the worst night's sleep. But it's adorable. Like it really is adorable. But the way that it's set up is,

uh, you know, I've got Jen, my wife, and then Oscar and Poppy there, and they're in the main bed. Yeah. Oh, no.

And I'm relegated to the foam mattress on the floor. All right. That's my position. It's like they want you out of the family, really, isn't it? Hey, guys, I'm still down here. Yeah, yeah. But it's, you know, it's lovely. But what happens overnight is just you've got a lot of restlessness, don't you, when

you've got a group sleeping situation. And then I sort of get to tap, tap, tap on the shoulder. And there's no more frightening sight than a child not saying anything but staring over you as you wake up. I had it last night with the storm. Oh, yeah. The kids came in and you're like. And they don't say anything. It's like something from The Shining.

Yeah, but she's like, Poppy's like, I'll come and sleep on here. And I was like, mate, there's not much real estate on this mattress, this phone mattress, but you're more than welcome.

And you know, within 10 minutes, she's got a, you know, 70-30 split of the coverage. Kids are very restless, aren't they? Oh, they're all over. My friend always says,

sleeping next to a child is like sleeping next to an octopus trying to find its car keys. Oh, yes. Just legs and lungs. What does he say? A goat that you've got in a sack. Oh, yeah.

Punching, kicking. The goat just wants to get its way out of the sack. This obviously, he hasn't put any goats in sacks before, but this is what you'd imagine it would be like. So he just wants to get its way out of the sack. I must have been elbowed in the face about eight times. I must have been sleeping next to Conor McGregor. It is like USC, isn't it?

Yeah, but then we wake up and it's fine. You get on with the day, don't you? I mean, you all know what happens when you sleep, don't you? You wake up. Yeah. And you start the day. But it is lovely. It's a big thing for kids, isn't it?

The sleepover. They love planning it and all that. My daughters a while back were like, why don't adults have sleepovers? You're like, well, they kind of do, but it's... And that's how they found out about the orgy. OK, all right. We're moving on from that one.

It was a life lesson that day. We've got $5,000 on the way for you very shortly. It is the hits. You've got Jono in bed. Five words for 5K on the hits. You're only five words away from a massive payday. It is our game of word association that we play every morning around about this time. If you match the same five words with our five words, you win $5,000.

Thankfully, no casualties yet like the Squid Game. But hey, who knows? Today might be the first Ben Boyce. Yeah. Managed to dodge bullets so far. Let's bring Katrina in from Auckland. How are you? Hi, guys. How are you? Oh, great to have you on, boys. Managed to dodge bullets so far. Let's bring Katrina in from Auckland. How are you? Hi, guys. How are you? Oh, great to have you on,

Katrina. It says you're homeschooling the kids today. Back first day of school again. Yeah, back to it again. Come drunk quick. Yeah, right. Gee whiz. You're in Auckland. Nothing quite like the joy of homeschooling children, I imagine, Katrina.

Oh, it's a joy. It's a joy. Yeah, right. Okay. How many have you got children, I imagine, Katrina. Oh, it's a joy, it's a joy. Yeah, right, okay. How many have you got? Two. Yeah, right. Well, let's win them $5,000, shall we? Oh, that would be great. So they don't have to go to school for the rest of their life.

No, thanks. I don't know if that's how it works, but anyway, who do you want to send into the soundproof booth, Jono, Ben, or Producer Juliet? Let's go with Jono. Okay, all right right i'll go in there for you katrina wish me luck thank you good luck and good luck katrina said good luck he hasn't got his headphones on but he is in the soundproof booth now all right what pops into your head

katrina when i say jay-z jay-z jay-z the rapper yeah um rapper yeah yeah yeah yeah rapper's a So Z, the wrapper. Yeah. Wrapper? Yeah. Yeah, wrapper's a good one. Pear is the next word. P-E-A-R. So as in the... The fruit. Yeah, I was going to say that, but it might be the word that pops into your head.

We'll go with fruit. Pear. Yeah, I'm just working with my son here. Pear, fruit. Fruit, okay. Please is word number three this morning. Please, P-L-E-A-S-E. That's how you spell it, Ben.

Please. Please. Yeah. Oh, that's a hard one. It's a manil's kind. Thank you. Please and thank you. Nice. Might have a thing about them. No, we can come back to that one. Thank you. Please and thank you.

Nice. Might have a thing about them. No, we can come back to that one. Hawaiian is word number four. Hawaiian? I'm going to say pizza. Yeah, that's a good option. Are you a fan of the pineapple on pizza or not?

Yeah, we are, except for one. Gets a bad rap, doesn't it? It gets a bad rap. You always pick it up. Anyway. And animal is the final word. Animal. Animal? Yeah.

Gosh, that's a wide one too. I know. These are what they do. They sort of give you the wide ones towards the end, don't they? I've seen to notice now. Zoo. Animal. Animal.

Oh, gosh, it could be anything. Zoo animal. Zoo? Yeah, we'll go with zoo. All right, and what are you thinking about please and thank you? You thinking that's working or? Yeah, we'll sit with that. That's another nice one as well. Oh, that was some tough words this morning, but we'll get Jono out of the soundproof booth right now. It took a while. Katrina's kids must be in their forties and married by now, are they?

No longer homeschooling, yeah. Were they some tough words? They were very tough words, actually, this morning, which is not what you want to hear, Jono. But anyway, we'll see how you go this morning. All right, let's win you $5,000. Play a quick game. Here we go.

Jay-Z, what happens when I say Jay-Z? Beyonce. We went rapper. That was a quick game. I actually got four out of five in my head. Yeah, I did. Which one did you not match? I didn't match the final one.

Oh, yeah. Okay, let's keep going then. Sorry, Katrina. Peer. P-E-A-R as in? Fruit. Yeah, there you go. Please.

Thank you. Hawaiian. Pizza. Oh, now we're on a roll. An animal. Jeez. Yeah, that was a very wide selection for that one. Go zoo?

Oh! Katrina! Four out of five. Oh, that hits. Oh, Jay-Z, Beyonce, if only we'd matched that. Absolutely. Oh, I bet my record last time I couldn't get past three. Oh, mate.

We're making great steps towards five out of five. Hey, next time we talk to you, you're going to be a 5,000 in there. Yeah. It's good. I'll keep trying. Good luck homeschooling the kids today, and hopefully we'll get to do this again. Oh, thank you, guys. Have a great day.

You too, mate. What's your name? Spy, Ju. Disney is making a movie on the creation of Disneyland. I'll give you some more details on that next. It is the hits. You got John on bed. The Hit Spy with McDonald's Monopoly.

Peel and scan your way to over $107 million in prizes. Breaking, breaking. There is an outbreak of celebrity news, and the location of interest is right here, right now with producer Juliette. So Walt Disney Studios are making a movie about Walt Disney himself and his journey to build the first Disneyland, which is in Anaheim in California. Opened in 1955, Disneyland, the very first one. That's yonks.

Is it a doco or is it a cartoon? It's going to be, it. Is it a doco or is it a cartoon or what is it? It's going to be it's not quite a doco, it'll be like with actors and things like that playing Walt Disney and his brother. Damn, bloody building consent didn't come through. They had a few problems obviously making a park of that magnitude

in that time. Oh my goodness, I know. So it won't touch on the, I guess, refurbishments and things they've done since. It'll just be on the initial creation. And obviously there are multiple Disneyland theme parks around the world, like Florida, Paris, Japan, and China, and all these other places. But the one in California was the only one to be built

under the supervision of Walt Disney himself. It doesn't have a title yet, the film, but it will be available on Disney+, as you would probably expect. Which will be quite interesting, because I imagine not a lot of kids these days would know much of the history, maybe, about Walt Disney or Disneyland itself. Do you know, I was watching, you know, when you go on Instagram and stuff, and they've got little ads that pop up, and they're like, the Masterclass. There have been Fed Ads for the Masterclass, where they interview all of the world's greatest and most successful people and you pay probably 500 bucks a year or something

to listen to what they've got to say about life. But there was a thing and I think it was like Nas the rapper. Very interesting. He was like, did you know Walt Disney was told he lacked creativity by a boss? Well you'd think he'd be one of the most creative people, you know.

Crazy, yeah. Just like the whole world just revolves and rotates on a person's opinion. Totally. You know, if you don't like that opinion, go and find someone who has the opinion that you like. Yeah. That's what Naz told me. And I think that was kind of like Lizzo as well.

She was told, no, no, no, you're not going to, like she was kind of like Lizzo as well. She was told, no, no, no, you're not going to, like, she was kind of shot down a little bit, like when she was trying to build her career until she finally broke through. And she's like, well, this is kind of, I'm living proof that if you're really passionate about what you want to do, even if you're getting negative feedback,

you can absolutely do it if you fully believe in yourself. She's tried over 300 times to get the park off the ground. Wow. Well, Disney. And then there was the shambles the first day it opened too. There was a whole lot of stuff all kind of went wrong, but you know, like he ploughed on through. I mean, to be fair to

the people that were judging him at the time, he'd be like, oh, this crazy guy Walt's trying to start this thing. It's mad. It's madness, you know. At that time as well. Yeah, you're right. When it was probably go to work, nine to five, do your thing, go home. Yeah, he had some it was probably go to work nine to five, do your thing, go home. You're building a theme park for it. Yeah, he had some very futuristic ideas which have definitely paid off.

And Lorde, she says that even after eight years or so of fame, God, I can't believe she's been, she rose to fame when she was 16. So it's been a while for her in the limelight. But even after eight years, it's still a real issue for her stage fright. So she still gets quite scared performing on stage that she's still trying to overcome. And to combat it, what she does at the moment is she tapes little notes all over the stage before she goes on to give her a little boost. So she'll go over and read something that her from the past is trying to tell her from the future to the future in the future to kind of. A little pep notes sort of thing.

Yeah, that's what she kind of does to get over her fright, frightness. Is that a word? I don't know. Let's just say frightness is a word. Yeah, sure, why not? I'll take it.

And something that I was like, oh, surely this, surely this isn't the right sort of trick to amp you up before a show, but to amp her up before a show, she likes to make herself a ginger tea from scratch, like literally like cuts the ginger up. She says it takes about 15 to 20 minutes and it's show. She likes to make herself a ginger tea from scratch, like literally cuts the ginger up. She says it takes about 15 to 20 minutes

and it's quite mindful for her to do it before she goes on stage to kind of make her not think about what she's about to do. Ben leaves notes around here as well, but it's usually on stuff in the fridge. Don't eat this lasagna, it's mine. Hands off the chamomile tea. Do you know, I've noticed someone has been eating

my Vogel's bread out of the fridge. And even in lockdown, I'm like, there are only a few. Here at work, I noticed. Because I was like, I think the other week, I was like, oh, yep, sweet. I've got enough pieces for Friday. And I got to work on Friday, and it was only the crusts. And I was like, who has been? And I nearly was like, should I add a note?

But I was like, no, Juliet, you can't be that person. Let's put a note on it to see what the reaction is. No! I know! Oh, my God. They'll be like, who is this person? Anyway. And they left the crust.

What a monster. I know. It's so sad. Stealing toast. At least you got to toast the crust for yourself. I know. It's very sad. And that is Spy.

For more, you can head to thehits.co.nz. After 8 o'clock on the show, we've got brand new Adele for you. They're very excited about that. As well as not the Vax-a-thon, we've got our Fax-a-thon. We'll get to that after 8 o'clock. It is the hits. You've got Jono and Ben. New Zealand's breakfast.

It's Jono and Ben. Good morning, New Zealand. It is just after 8 o'clock. Jono and Ben with you. Now, over the weekend, it was Super Saturday. Today, you dubbed this what? It's 8 o'clock. Jono and Ben with you. Now, over the weekend, it was Super Saturday. Today, you dubbed this what? It's Miserable Monday with Jono and Ben. But that doesn't mean we don't keep ploughing on, Ben.

That's right. 130,000 Kiwis received their jabs on Super Saturday. And it was actually pretty awesome to see. And it started off with Paddy Gower, one of the hosts, busting out this. Let's go! You can tell Paddy wasn't 100 on board with his delivery on that. I mean, we gave it a go before 7 o'clock,

didn't we, Ben? You half-hearted. Try another one. Come on. You do it. Yeah, it's your turn. Let's go! Oh, you didn't win high.

You went sort of pitchy. I was just trying to smoke screen the fact that I can't say it properly. Julie is probably the let's go person of the show. Let's go! See, there you go. Even I feel like I'm doing that. But there was lots of people over the Vax-a-thon over the weekend doing some great things.

Dr. Ashley Bloomfield, he was cutting some shapes. He was out there dancing. There is Ashley Bloomfield dancing. Spread your legs. Did Ashley spread his legs? He did, actually. Quite far. Was he trying to do the splits basically?

Spread your legs Ashley! So it was awesome to see and because the Vax-a-thon was going on we thought we'd have right now our Vax-a-thon. Yeah, now this is based, centred around the Vax machine and instead of moving the country forward I think we're going to be moving it back probably about 10 to 15 years when the Vax was last in use. So we do have a number here and the Vax is hooked up from when we did a 90s show a couple of months ago. And you just want to, how does your fax-a-thon work?

I just want to receive a fax. Oh, so that's how the fax-a-thon works? Yeah. So once we get one fax, the fax-a-thon's over? Oh, you can get multiple faxes, but I'd be happy with one. Does one fax justify an a-thon? Probably not. But 09-300-7130 is the phone number. if you've got a fax i don't know if you

have but give us a fax this is the game this is the joy of having a fax-a-thon yeah you don't know if it's going to be a success or an absolute disappointment but we'll find out very shortly yeah we'll do that after brand new adele she's back and this is her new single it is easy on me so good to have her back and it is the hits. You've got John O'Bien. Now, over the weekend, it was the Vax-a-thon. It took place Super Saturday, and it was a huge success, which was awesome. 130,000 Kiwis got a vaccination over the day.

Wonderful results. Wasn't that? Giving away flat-screen TVs, double passes to restaurants and stuff. It was a great day. Anything to get the job. Wonderful results. Giving away flat screen TVs, double passes to restaurants and stuff. It was a great day. Anything to get the job done. And my mum, I was talking to her on the phone over the weekend, she was like, she remembers not going to school when she was a child.

The late 40s. They had polio. They had a polio outbreak. Now polio would sort of get into a part of your limb and then your limb wouldn't grow beyond that point. Really? Yeah, a lot of people die from polio would sort of It would get into a part of your limb And then your limb wouldn't grow Beyond that point Really? Yeah a lot of people die from polio

Wow But she said then the vaccination Just came through schools Bang bang bang Fired them out Then they had to follow up Do a shot of this No one asked any questions back then

It was a time where No one was polio hesitant or anything like that No No anti-polioists Alright Very interesting And so polio hesitant or anything like that? No. No, anti-polio-ist. All right. Very interesting. And so polio has been eradicated, for the most part, in the Western world, thanks to vaccines. That was Annie Pryor's message.

Well, there we go. They had their vax-a-thon over the weekend. There was a bit of an awkward moment to where the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, got asked to DJ, and she deferred like a politician. Have a listen. Prime Minister, how would you feel about jumping on the decks? Oh, very bad. Waka waka.

Better say that I, these days, always defer now to Clark. So if you're desperate for a DJ, I'm going to get Clark to take the job. Let's go Clark. He's an actual DJ. Sonny, can I come on up? He's an actual DJ. Come on up, come on up, brother. I've got nothing to offer and I feel very, like I shouldn't be touching another man's decks here, brother. I've got nothing to offer and I feel very like I shouldn't be touching another man's

decks here. So there you go. Clark Gayford got on there and he started scratching on the decks as well, didn't he? He did. He did. But not, but half-heartedly as well. Yeah. He was like, why did you throw me under the bus here?

Because you can tell they were definitely having a conversation in the car ride on the way home, weren't they? But it is, of course, the vaccination went on over the weekend, or the fax-a-thon, so we thought this morning we might have a fax-a-thon. So I put out the number before, 073007130. Now, all of the gangs were invited to take part in our fax-a-thon.

None of them turned up. None of them turned up being boys, but this happened during the song. We got a fax on our brother, 1990's fax machine, and it came through from Dale. The fax-a-thon is a roaring success. Wonderful noise of the fax machine. Yeah, and it came through from Dale just going,

I'm really enjoying the fax-a-thon, guys. I can't wait until the tax-a-thon, where the government has to make back the billions of dollars they've spent over the last 24 months. That's probably what's going to happen, eh? There'll be the Vax-a-thon and then the Tax-a-thon. One more moment we wanted to play for you from the Vax-a-thon over the weekend.

There was Lorde, there was Taika, lots of people involved, and there was M. Padigawa doing a TikTok for the first time. All I can say is with everyone getting vaccinated, this is the least I can do. And when I saw the Prime Minister chicken out a DJ and I knew that there was no way that I could chicken out of this TikTok. So let's get it on. So good on Manny Gower for getting involved and good on New Zealand for rolling up their

sleeves and getting amongst it on Saturday. It was pretty awesome to actually to see after, you know, you were a hater leading into it, weren't you? Oh, I love hating. It's one of my favourite things to do. But in honesty, on air I was a hater. Ben, you know me, two characters. Yeah. Off air.

But not the real Jono, eh? Why don't you be the off air Jono on air? Because he's boring and sensible. But off air Jono would say, oh, it's a great cause to get the job done. But on here, you're like... Yeah, but that's not helping the message. No, it's a character.

Off here, though, well done on the $130,000. Huge success, roaring success, well done. So also, we're getting some texts, too, from some anti-faxers, Ben, who want us to stop using this technology right now. Oh, well, we'll stop using the faxes. This is the last time we do it and it's the hits. You've got John Owen, Ben. These show producers

were nominated for a radio award because when you work with these guys you deserve a medal. New Zealand's Breakfast. 8.27 on your Monday morning. First day back for Term 4 for kids around the country. Some doing it online, others being able to go to school.

Your wife Amanda's a teacher. She back to it, mate? Back to the online learning. Picking up the tools again, is that what you're saying? I'm now at the laptop this morning for online learning. How does the online learning go from a teacher's POV? You watch it from the sidelines. I do like when the group ones, when I'm home doing work in this group,

and, you know, it's like they're all just, you know, because the kids, they just love talking, you know, over this. You know, it's all go. First thing that comes into their head, they say. You put 30 kids on thing and it's like they're not going to mute their Zooms. They're going to say some stuff. How does she control 30 children on Zoom? Yeah, you know, teachers are doing some great work out there at the moment.

Yeah, they are. They are. But we ran a school holiday activity sheet that was in the New Zealand Herald and online for kids around the country over the holidays. And we've got a couple of winners to announce right now. Yeah, a bit of filler content we did to help the parents out for about 36 minutes or so. We figured the time that it sucked up. One, one, Ben, this was your idea.

You had speech bubbles above our head and you had to write in the speech bubbles. And Sophie, aged 11, wrote, knock, knock, and you say in your speech bubble, who's there? And then I say, no one, it's lockdown. Get out of my bubble. So thank you, Sophie. Some great topical content there from Sophie.

She wins $100. Yeah, and Lottie won as well for our colouring competition as well. And almost like a Jeff Bezos sort of space inspired colouring because you could put us anywhere and like William Shatner we've sort of gone to space Yeah so the background you could design and colour in and it's just Ben and myself finger gunning

the camera there and we look like a trendy dance music duo We do actually Multicoloured jackets, my hairs, what little hair I have is... You've sort of grown a mohawk. Mohawk has died blue, Ben Bush, you've got a hat that looks like the world on your head.

Yeah, we could be a wonderful... We're cutting edge musicians. We could be headlining Rhythm and Vines like that. So well done Lottie, you're going to get $100 as well. So thank you very much to everyone that entered, it was a lot of fun going through those. Next on the show, Hayley Sproul.

She's the host of the Great Kiwi, Great New Zealand Kiwi. Here we go. Let him figure it out, Julia. Great Kiwi Bake Off. There you go. I put New Zealand and Kiwi in. It wasn't necessary. But she joins us next.

It is the hits. You go on, Jono and Ben. The hits and HelloFresh. Pay it forward. If you know a lockdown legend, head to thehits.co.nz. They could be getting two weeks of HelloFresh like we're giving to this person right now. Let's make a call. Hello, Julia speaking.

Julia, how are you? I'm good, thank you. It's Jono and Ben calling from the Hits radio station, Julia. Hi, how are you guys? Are you in Tauranga? I am indeed. Okay, how are your medical studies going? They're going alright. Yeah, good.

You know a lot about me. No, it's kind of strange, isn't it? Yeah, a couple of kids. We've got a lot of details. It feels kind of weird that we know a lot about you. How are your two teenage children? My two teenage children? I don't have two teenage children.

Oh, that's where the wheels fall off. Yeah. Yeah, right. Okay. 25. I don't think I could have two teenage children. Yeah, so I was a bit shaky on the teenage children thing. I shouldn't have gone with it. I'm sorry. Anyway, you've been nominated by Andrea? Yeah. You know Andrea? Yeah, she's my mum. There you go. you've been nominated by Andrea? Yes. You know Andrea?

Yeah, she's my mum. There you go. You've been nominated as a lockdown legend, doing great work out there. And you're going to get two weeks of HelloFresh delivered to your door. Oh, amazing. Thank you so much. Yeah, that's from us to you. Oh, awesome.

Thank you. Now, we understand you also convinced your two brothers to get vaccinated. I did, yes. Yeah, I heard that they weren't vaccinated, was very angry about it. Let's reenact the conversation, okay? I'll be your brother. Hey! What's going on? Hey, I hear you haven't been

vaccinated yet. Nah, sucks, man. Spoons stick to you, and you know, 5G and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah. Well, you should definitely get vaccinated. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Still Yeah, yeah. Well, you should definitely get vaccinated. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Still getting so angry. Jeez, you really flared up there. Not at all.

I'm very passionate about it. Yeah, no, good on you. Yeah, good on you for doing that. Yeah, I think. Working in a psychiatric ward. Yeah, yeah. So I'm there at the moment. So with med school, we go on placements throughout the year.

And yeah, I'm working in psychiatry at the moment, which is quite interesting. I imagine it'd be an interesting job as well. So what are you studying? Psychiatry? At the moment, yes. I'm studying medicine to be a doctor, and yes, I'm doing psychiatry at the moment. So lots of people with mental illness

coming into the ward and getting them better and sending them home, really. Oh, good on you. I imagine there's a lot of people struggling around these times. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, difficult times. Well, it's amazing the work you're doing. Hey, Ben, so you're going to be a doctor, are you?

Yeah. Yeah. Do you want to talk to... What? Do you want to talk to Julia about your... Oh, here we go. That's always like... Do you offer free medical advice?

You're better than this. I'm better than this. We're going to wrap this up here. All right, Julia? Well, now it seems appropriate. Okay, Julia. You've got a medical professional on the phone. It was all going so well, too. All right, Julia.

Thanks so much for everything you're doing. We really do appreciate it. And two weeks HelloFresh coming your way. Awesome. Thank you, Heath. And if you want to nominate someone like Jackie, head to thehits.co.nz. Justin Bieber holy that is our

show for a Monday tomorrow on the show we're talking to someone really interesting yeah someone who has spent over seven thousand

dollars on trying to look like this lady and she sings like her as well yeah and Adele impersonator joins

us from the UK tomorrow what's the next best thing when you can't get Adele we're getting Adele impersonator joins us from the UK tomorrow. What's the next best thing when you can't get Adele? We're getting an Adele impersonator. Jono and Ben back tomorrow. Have a great day, New Zealand.

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